The films of
Jacques Tati

Sylvie et le fantôme (1946)
Claude Autant-Lara
  L'École des facteurs (1947)
Jacques Tati
  Le Diable au corps (1947)
Claude Autant-Lara
 
     
 [More...]   Although massively overshadowed by Jacques Tati’s subsequent works, L’École des facteurs merits consideration as a small comic masterpiece in its own right...  [More...]    [More...]  

Jour de fête (1949)
Jacques Tati
  Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953)
Jacques Tati
  Mon oncle (1958)
Jacques Tati
 
     
Jacques Tati’s first full-length film, Jour de fête paints a beautifully evocative and detailed picture of life in a provincial French town just after the War...  [More...]   Having established himself as a director and comic performer in Jour de fête, Jacques Tati won international acclaim with his next film, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot...  [More...]   Five years after Les Vacances de Monsier Hulot proved a major critical success, Jacques Tati and Monsieur Hulot returned to cinema screens across the world in Mon Oncle...  [More...]  

Playtime (1967)
Jacques Tati
     
     
The film that torpedoed Jacques Tati’s filmmaking career, effectively marginalising one of France’s most inventive and daring film directors...  [More...]      





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